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Bagdasarian Productions, LLC v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Entertainment Law
In a contract dispute between a movie studio and the owners of Alvin and the Chipmunks, the plaintiffs' interlocutory appeal of a district court order...

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC v. Simmonds

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In consolidated suits seeking disgorgement of "short-swing" insider trading profits under section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act that were...

VanDesande v. US

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit by an employee of the US Postal Service (USPS) alleging that the government breached a settlement agreement to resolve her Title VII...

R & R Sails, Inc. v. Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Insurance Law, Sanctions
In a suit that included a claim of tortious bad faith denial of an insurance claim, the district court's judgment in favor of the insurer on that...

Ebel v. Shinseki

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Military Law
A widow's appeal of a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, where: 1) the decision...

Estate of Moss

Civil Procedure, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In a postprobate contest to a will, the trial court's order sustaining the executor's demurrer without leave to amend is reversed, where:1) the trial...

Gonzalez v. Sec'y of Dep't of Homeland Security

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Immigration Law, Remedies
Summary judgment denying a petition for review of a USCIS denial of a naturalization application for lack of good moral character is affirmed, where:...

Colony Bancorp of Malibu, Inc. v. Patel

Civil Procedure
In a case in which the trial judge after a lunch break directed the plaintiffs' counsel to resume the direct examination of a key witness while...

Markel American Insurance Co. v. Diaz-Santiago

Admiralty, Attorney's Fees, Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Insurance Law
In litigation between the owner of a ship and the ship's mortgagor in which the mortgagor sought an award of attorney's fees, costs, and expenses...

Garcia Monagas v. Garcia-Ramirez de Arellano

Civil Procedure, Probate, Trusts & Estates, Property Law & Real Estate
In litigation involving an intra-family dispute over inherited property in Puerto Rico, the district court's dismissal on res judicata grounds is...